Pile fabric



April 16, 1929. J. A. COYLE ET AL PILE FABRI 0 Filed Aug. 30, 1927 mv N o M Ai'roRNEY Patented Apr. 16, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. COYLE AND ERNEST T. PHOENIX, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOBS TO STEPHEN SANFORD 8c SONS, INC., F AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OE NEW YORK.

PILE FABRIC.

application filed August so, 1927. Serial no. 216,382.

The present invention relates to pile fabrics and an object thereof is to eflectively secure to a pile fabric such as an Axm inisterrug a fringe.

To this and other ends, the invention con sists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described; the novel features being pointed out in the appended claim. In the drawings:

Fi I is a fragment ofa pile fabric showing t e fringe attached;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the fabric and the fringe.

The securing of fringe to pile fabrics such as Axminister rugs has not been done heretofore because of the tendency of pile fabric to-fray or unravel, and, if to prevent this, the fabric is turned or overlapped at the fringe edge, then the material becomes too thick at this point.

With this invention it is possible to secure a fringe to a pile fabric without danger of unraveling and at the same time the fabric is not thickened at the point where the fringe is secured.

In the illustrated embodiment of the in-' vention, 1 indicates the pile fabric which has one or more edges provided with a break in the pile extending longitudinally of said edge. This break is folded or turned longitudinally at 2 to provide alower portion 3 and an upper or overla ping portion 4, the free edge of whichextends preferably to the'pile and abuts the'latter. The braid 5 of the gringe 6 is superimposed on the overlapping portion 4 and stitching is passed through the braid and the two portions of the break to secure the fringe.

With this inventiona frin e may be se- 40 cured to the edge of a pile fabnc without any danger o unraveling and without also increasing th thickness of the ile fabric at the seam bet-ween the fringe an the pile fabric.

What we claim as our inventionand desire to secure by Letters Patent is The combination with a pile fabric having a break in the pile along an edge, the break being turned to provide an overlapping portion on the upper side of the fabric beyond the pile surface, and a fringesecured on the upper face of said'overla-pplng ortion.

JOSEPH A. OYLE. "ERNEST T. PHOENIX. 

